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Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh ordered four of them removed. Last night city crews just got'er done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/baltimore-begins-taking-down-confederate-statues/2017/08/16/f32aa26e-8265-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?utm_term=.cdd0f2c53f1f
Not to be outdone, GOPee MD guv calls for removal of another objectionable monument.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-calls-for-removing-the-statue-of-roger-b-taney-calling-it-the-right-thing-to-do/2017/08/15/3a84dec0-81eb-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.7d9ff3c4bae1
The statue of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney on the grounds of the State House in Annapolis. Taney is best known as the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which upheld slavery and said African Americans were not citizens. (Greg Dohler/The Gazette)
shenmue
(38,506 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Just like "repeal and replace" idiots made the ACA more popular than Obama ever could have on his own.
Ah, irony.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)She says she took advice from NO mayor Landreau: Do it quietly and do it now.